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The Gendarme's Mark T. Mustian on Omnivoracious Reading

As we noted on Monday, Mark T. Mustian's The Gendarme tackles those most difficult of subjects for fiction: genocide, war, cruelty, and love. Narrated by the 92-year-old Emmett Conn, a Turkish immigrant to the United States, the novel follows Conn from the present into the past and a welter of ever-clearer memories of the protagonist's role in the Armenian genocide in 1915.

The novel comes with glowing blurbs from the likes of Robert Olen Butler, Bob Shacochis, Sandra Dallis, and Atom Egoyan, and already has been picked up for reprint in several countries, including Greece, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Israel, and France.

We'll hear one last time from Mustian--about his own "corollary to the Franzen/Piccoult-Weiner dustup"--but for now here's more on omnivoracious reading. (Also check out Mustian on research and experience.)